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By: Bond, Mildred, Roy Wilkins, Paul Schwartz, Et Al
Price: $45.00
Publisher: NY, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: 1976
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 21762
Condition: Good
This book is the unforeseen product of one of the activities conducted by the NAACP as part of its year-long observance of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Biographical sketches were prepared and distributed as part of the Association's regular press service to hundreds of newspapers. The response to them overwhelmingly justified this compilation of those biographies. Four or five small rubbed spots on orange covers; pages were hand-numbered; minor wear and moderate foxing; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 35 pages; 21762 View more info
By: Brent, William
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Crown: 1996
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Seller ID: 29725
ISBN: 081292486X
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
The absorbing story of one man's journey from his dirt-poor childhood in Franklin, Louisiana, to his coming of age on the streets Oakland, California. Along the way, Brent finds himself scrapping with the law, learning to survive in San Quentin, growing steadily more politically aware of the many ways his own individual course is bound up with the destiny of African-Americans generally. Brent's intuitive resentment of unjust and abusiv authority marked him as a troublemaker from an early age. It would leave Its stamp upon his character as a man. Deckled edges. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9&#... View more info
Price: $14.01
Publisher: Knopf: 1994
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Seller ID: 29341
ISBN: 0679421793
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
In this rich memoir of his early life, the celebrated scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , gives an indelible portrait of a vanished America. Born in 1950, he grew up in Piedmont, West Virginia, a town perched on the side of a hill in the Allegheny Mountains. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale, and his Ph. D. from Cambridge. Full of humor, thoughtful, and engaging, Gates has written a classic oming-of-age story that will inspire generations to come. A portion of this book was previously printed in "The New Yorker". ; Cover Art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; 29341 View more info
By: George, Nelson
Price: $10.00
Publisher: NY, Harpercollins: 1994
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Seller ID: 25134
ISBN: 0060171200
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
An examination of African-American imagery and participation in American movies includes a timeline of important African-American events in film history and discusses the achievements of noted celebrities, including Eddy Murphy, Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry, Spike Lee, et al. Mild wear, remainder mark ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 224 pages; 25134 View more info
By: Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor, and Larke Nahme Huang and Associates
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Jossey-Bass: 1989
Edition: Stated 1st Edition; 4th Printing
Seller ID: 25444
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 423 pages; 25444 View more info
By: Golden, Marita
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Doubleday: 1993
Seller ID: 30669
ISBN: 0385424000
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
In this provocative collection of nonfiction pieces, Marita Golden, the critically acclaimed novelist, and fourteen other African-American women writers talk--each in their own distinctive style--about love, men, and sex. These essays--nine of which were written expressly for this book--range in style and content from Audre Lorde's now classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam DeCosta-Willis's moving essay about her husband to Audrey B. Chapman's hopeful "Black Men Do Feel About Love." ; Cover Art; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 232 pages; 30669 View more info
By: Haddad, William F. , and G. Douglas Pugh, Ed's.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Prentice Hall: 1969
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 28777
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Contents: John Z. DeLorean on The Problem; Gerson Green and Geoffrey Faux on the Social Utility of Black Enterprise; John McClaughry on Black Ownership and National Politics; Roy Innis on Separatist Economics: A New Social Contract; plus 8 more papers from Howard J. Samuels, A. Wright Elliott, Peter F. McNeish, David B. Hertz, Lawrence Johnson and Wendell Smith, Dunbar S. McLaurin and Cyril D. Tyson, G. Douglas Pugh, and Martin Skala. Crease to lower edge of front DJ flap. In mylar Book Jacket Cover. ; The American Assembly, Columbia University Series; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 176+ pages; ... View more info
By: Horowitz, David
Price: $14.01
Publisher: Encounter Books: 2002
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Seller ID: 30989
ISBN: 1893554449
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Uncivil Wars shows what happens when the new racial orthodoxy collides with tolerance and free speech and what the implications of this conflict are for American education and culture. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 147 pages; 30989 View more info
By: Kamerman, Sylvia E. (Ed. )
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Plays: 1988
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 23777
ISBN: 0823802795
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
This collection of plays focusing on the Black experience in America includes "The Hall of Black American Heroes", "John Henry", "I Have a Dream" and 8 others. Usual ex-library marks. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages; 23777 View more info
By: Kaplan, H. Roy
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Itasca, IL, F E Peacock Publishers, Inc.: 1977
Seller ID: 22785
ISBN: 0875812198
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
"used" tape on spine removed, leaving a scuff on front board. Some soil on boards, writing on foredge. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 387 pages; 22785 View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1996
Edition: Stated 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 30534
ISBN: 0802115624
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Citing a trend among African-American baby-boomers who are becoming increasingly interested in spirituality, a cultural examination considers what the church represents to African Americans and predicts widespread social change. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages; 30534 View more info
By: Lovett, O. Rufus & Anne Wilkes Tucker
Price: $42.00
Publisher: University of Texas Press: 2006
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 31509
ISBN: 0292709323
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Small and self-contained, yet with ties to the larger world, "Weeping Mary" is a community in rural ast Texas. The poetic mystery of its name, which local legend attributes to an African American woman called Mary who wept inconsolably over the loss of her land to a deceitful white man, drew photographer O. Rufus Lovett in 1994. Feeling a kinship with the people and rhythms of a small Soutern town like the one in which he grew up. In the decade since his first visit, he has created an impressive body of work that distills the essence of this unique, yet instinctively familiar community... View more info
By: Malcolm X
Price: $13.50
Publisher: NY, Pathfinder Press: 1970
Edition: 1st Edition Thus
Seller ID: 20573
Condition: Very Good
Previous owner's name on title page, edgewear; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 74 pages View more info
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.: 1945
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Seller ID: 30452
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Two articles about two books scotch taped to rear endpapers. One is concerning this book: an unusual anthology of the best writing, both fiction and non-fiction, on the Negro in America. It presents a comprehensive picture of the Negro from the time he left Africa to the present day [1945], and offers constructive speculation about the future of America's most acute social dilemma. Here is a library of thought contained in one entertaining volume--a challenging, readable anthology that highlights the personal side of the whole Negro problem. Previous owner's name, long ago crease on half-title... View more info
By: Paton, Alan
Price: $14.01
Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1948
Seller ID: 25418
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Minor edgewear, front gutter cracking, previous owner's name. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages; 25418 View more info
Price: $14.01
Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1974
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 30657
ISBN: 0674076206
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
From DJ flap: In this illuminating book Mr. Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception of history on which practically every significant black American novel and short story is based. Black DJ is edgeworn, rubbed and has one closed tear, about 1 inch, "repaired" with scotch tape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; 30657 View more info
By: Rothman, David J. , & Sheila M. Rothman (Ed. 's)
Price: $10.80
Publisher: Basic Books: 1975
Seller ID: 22691
ISBN: 0465080847
Condition: Good+
Corner creases, previous owner's name, hi-liting. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 22691Vshb View more info
By: Stewart, Maria W. (edited and Introduced by Marilyn Richardson)
Price: $14.01
Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1990
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 25442
ISBN: 0253204461
Condition: Near Fine
Very occasional and light yellow hiliting. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 136 pages; 25442 View more info
By: Stull, Edith
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1971
Seller ID: 30667
Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
14 chapters covering historical mini-bios of black Americans. On the cover there is a man in a yellow shirt, red neck scarf and cowboy hat. That man is Bill Pickett, the original bulldogger from Taylor, Texas. With the exception of a date on the ffep, the book is in as new condition. ; Sepia drawings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 69 pages; 30667 View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Johnson Publishing Company: 1970
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 20551
ISBN: 0874850320
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
An escaped slave, he became the pastor of two all-white congregations in South Butler and Cortland, New York. In 1834, he was attacked by a proslavery mob of New York merchants, and was jailed without “accuser or trial. ” From then on, he committed himself to the anti-slavery cause. In 1851, fearing arrest for his part in a slave rescue, Ward escaped to Canada, where he continued to work as an anti-slavery agent. Ward used his powerful oratorical skills overseas, and lived the remainder of his life in Jamaica, free from the constant threat of arrest. Previous owner's name; faint dampstaini... View more info
